Improvement in fire-kindlers



F. D. CORDES.

FIRE-KINDLER. No.183,908. Patented 0ct.31, 1876.

UNITED STATES PATENT GEEICE FREDERICK D. CORDES, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIi RIGHT TO ANDR GEIGER, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-KINDLERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 183,908, dated October 31, 1876; application filed September 1, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FEEDER CORDES ot' New York city, N gp ented an Improved Fire-Kindler, of whlcl the following is a specification Figure 1 is a side view, and Fig. 2 an end view, of my improved re-kindler.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures.

This invention relates to a new construction of re-kindler, and consists in making the same ot' a bundle of parallel pieces of straw or other tubular halms, which are lled and covered with melted resin, pitch, or other easily combustible material.

Fire-kindlers were heretofore made ot wood, corn-cobs, and even of compressed straw, leaves, orgthe like,and covered with combustible substance. But by bundling the hollow halms according to my invention I am enabled to till each balm, besides covering it, with the combustible matter, and thus to produce a more perfect kindler than could heretofore be done.

In the drawing, the letter A represents my improved re-kindler. The same is made o1 halms a a of dried straw or equivalent tubu lar stalks, all nearly of equal length, and un pressed, so that their ends are open. The halms a a are, by a suitable cord or tie, b, tied into a bundle, and the bundle thus produced is immersed in molten resin, or other liquid o1 semi-liquid combustible substance, which will coat each halm and also enter the interior thereof. When the combustible matter ad hering to the halrns after said immersion has become dry, the kindler is completed.

I claim as my invention- A fagot in which the combustible material is contained in and carried by hollow stalks bound together, as set forth.

FREDERICK D. CORDES.

Witnesses:

ERNEST C. WEBB, A. V. BRIEsEN. 

